Hangman's Curse (2003)

Very well executed

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

A note to anybody who has read the book: This is not a page for page movie version of the book. It is only loosely based on the book. That being said, I actually enjoyed this movie. It kept to the book (which was awesome) just enough to give a sense of familiarity, yet was original enough in it's own right that it still gave a few surprises. I actually liked the movie ending a lot better than the book ending, because it actually wrapped things up quite nicely. Even though the acting wasn't spot on, the actors still gave a decent representation of the book characters, especially Mr. Peretti. His performance as a crazy scientist was over the top and brilliant. For anybody watching this expecting a horror movie, you might be a little disappointed. There are a few "jump scenes", bit overall it's a pretty family friendly movie. So overall I recommend this movie.

This movie can be looked at in many different ways, so I'll separate my opinions based on what aspects of the movie I paid attention to.First off, in it's horror/action aspects, it was amazingly average, possibly slightly below average. The little hangman symbols in the lockers, typical painful forced-down-your-throat foreshadowing. The weird kid who you know from the start is going to be the crazy villain in the end, you can see it all coming from miles away.What made it drop below average was the spiders...Seriously. If I recall correctly, they were trying to say that Brown Recluse spiders were being planted by the sociopath kid to attack the kids who bully people, and then they say that they were bred to be larger and deadlier...And when they show the spiders, they're these huge tarantula things! Brown Recluses are small, fairly smooth-looking, very long-legged spiders, but I guess you can't expect the film makers to understand evolution and breeding based on the film's themes.As for the "christian themes", they felt shoe-horned in. There's very little more to say about that, seeing the movie is the best way to understand this. It did, however, make the movie feel more hokey and ridiculous.Really, the only reason I watched this movie was that it was filmed primarily at a high school which I live about a mile away from, and it's kinda cool to be able to look at something so local that's in a big (using this word loosely) motion picture.

okay so...a couple of years ago i read the book 'hang man's curse'. this book was very good... the way it was written was great, the characters had much better personalities and just the events in the book were exciting and suspenseful. then not long afterwards i heard about a movie being brought out...a movie called hang mans curse.. n i must say i got very excited. after watching the movie i felt...well to put it bluntly i thought the movie was quite boring...the characters were 2d and unbelievable, the events in the story had changed a lot, so much so that it almost seemed to be a different story all together...and the twist seemed somewhat unbelievable as they were acted out. the acting in this movie seemed as though they could have been so much better...because so much was crammed into the book, it wasn't possible to put it into a movie, so many corners were cut making the movie not fit together well. pretty much there were a lot of holes in the storyline. i myself think that the movie hangmans curse could have been a lot better than it was even if they had decided to make the movie alittle longer to fit more in....but they didn't so i didn't enjoy it nearly as much as i enjoyed the book. anyone who hated the movie should pick up the book n I'm sure a lot more people would enjoy it.

I just watched this 'movie' and I must say that it was possibly one of the worst that I have ever seen.First off there is the stereotypical portrayal of the goth subculture. By golly....all goths worship Satan and want their classmates dead! When I was a goth in high school(late 1980's)I personally worshiped a fellow student who committed suicide and prayed to him to kill all of the 'jocks'. You better believe it!!! It's like the makers of the film studied my life and patterned the 'goths' in the movie after me! WOW!!!If you can't tell that I am being sarcastic then you probably like this movie.Everything about this movie is trite and patterned on stereotypes. Even the ending is typical. The 'evil' looking 'goth' kids suddenly change their clothes and are happy. As if changing your clothes can all of a sudden change your whole entire attitude. Every time I wear jeans and a 'normal' shirt I know that I feel at peace with the world and want to throw frisbees in a park.About twenty minutes from the ending my boyfriend commented that he thought it was a 'christian' movie, and he was right. Who else but close minded bigots would portray a subculture is such a light. Instead of actually doing some research they perpetuated the whole 'goths' are evil stereotype. Not all Christians are bigots, but the people who made this movie are sure not practicing what they are preaching.Stay away from this movie. If you are reading this while drunk you may want to look into it just for the pure entertainment value of seeing David Keith with an upside-down cross drawn on his forehead.